Giving Other Sports Their Due - Part 6 Premium Story

Softball coach Tim Walton
Softball coach Tim Walton
By Larry Vettel
Senior Writer
Date: Jul 6, 2008

Some resent calling collegiate sports other than football and men’s basketball “non revenue” sports. They prefer the moniker “Olympic Sports”. But that doesn’t make much sense since the Olympics have men’s basketball, but not cross country and golf (except for a short time). Plus the IOC voted to discontinue baseball and softball – a vote that will be revisited in 2010.

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